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Posted by Will on February 6, 2008, 11:05 am
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> >>> Dear all,
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> >>> Anyone have solution to not allow user movefoldersinto another folder
> >>> accidentially in MS server 2003?
> >>> We are using share folder options to everyfoldersbut any users can
> >>>dragfoldersto move into another folder very easy.
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> >>> Thanks in advance!
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> >>> Regards,
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> >>> Ken Luk
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> >> The most close thing to a real solution is user education.
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> >> You can set thefoldersso that they cannot delete them by
> >> use of their NTFS permissions, such as granting only List
> >> on thefolders, but that does not solve the underlying issue.
> >> If they do not have delete on thefoldersthey can stilldrag
> >> anddropthe folder to somewhere, and they cause a copy
> >> to get set up there and all that they can delete removed
> >> from the original location, which is just as bad as if they
> >> had successfully moved everything (perhaps worse).
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> >> There is no technical solution to this since copy is not
> >> treated as a transacted, atomic action, and so as much as
> >> can happen will happen.
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> >> Roger
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> > The question was how to prevent users from movingfoldersaccidentally,
> > which would imply that they should be allowed to movefoldersif they are
> > doing it on purpose. If that is what he meant, the answer is that this is
> > impossible. If you can find any way to keep people from making mistakes,
> > the same software could probably do their work for them. ;-)
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> > /Al
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> Nice observation Al. We could probably also use that accident
> prevention technique to prevent all stubbed toes, all lost keys,
Those examples have easy and inexpensive countermeasures to prevent or
recover from: Wear shoes, make copies of keys.
The difference with accidental drag and drop is that the mistake is
easy to make, difficult to prevent with training, and a big PITA for
everyone to deal with and should seemingly have an easily configurable
solution.
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